The bunfight over the Wiki page for The Hockey Stick Illusion continues apace, with the whole article now locked down. One of the bones of contention is whether the NWT review that I posted about is allowable, with one participant arguing that the review (which was by NWT's editor) was "a comment to promote a product in a webshop".

The idea that the magazine's editor should be writing sales copy for a webshop is rather extraordinary, so I queried this with Marcel Crok, who ascertained that the review had appeared in the magazine proper...

...and in a sister publication called De Ingenieur....

One word for readers here - I suggest you don't get involved in the bunfight. Leave it to those who have been dealing with the issue already. We don't want to fall foul of Wiki's proscriptions against canvassing.

Reader Comments (8)

I don't think I can justify the time to sit and watch this one, not after having spent last weekend glued to the three-way CA/RC/BH extravaganza. The BBC's remit used to be to 'inform, educate and entertain'. I'm not sure if it still is, if so it falls short, but CA/BH and a few others would in my opinion be better beneficiaries of the licence fee than the Beeb on the basis that they fulfil that remit so much more successfully.